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March 20, 2005, Sunday

As the Jamaicans say, ''Much respect is due.'' To whom? Maybe to the rain and sea. The third annual Calabash International Literary Festival here on the southern coast of Jamaica began like a huge family wedding. Piles of jerk chicken, fish,...

If there is near-universal agreement that Sept. 11 changed America, there is a wide range of opinion about what that transformation consists of. For some, the change is simply a matter of perspective; for others, it is manifest in public policy,...

November 4, 2001, Sunday

Professor John Edgar Wideman showed up at Michael Jordan's summer basketball camp 10 years ago determined to take the measure of the Bulls' star. On the court. Wideman was still only 50. He could play. But Michael's arm was in a sling. He had...

October 28, 2001, Sunday

HOOP ROOTS By John Edgar Wideman 242 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $24. ''No book.'' Thus begins John Edgar Wideman's challenging memoir. ''Only a wish I can make something like a book about a game I've played for most of my life,'' he continues,...

October 4, 2001, Thursday

Robert Wideman's part in a 1975 killing might have been forgotten by now except by the family of a 24-year-old man who was shot in the back on a November night. Instead, the crime became one of the enduring literary images of black America, as a...